Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Noting the severity of the threats posed by pollution to both people and the planet, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has highlighted the need for rapid, large-scale and coordinated action by all actors to make the world pollution-free.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Key among issues being discussed at the third UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, which started at the UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, on Monday is to tackle the global menace of pollution.
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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) have announced a new three-year partnership agreement, on the heels of a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (2014-2017) in which the two organizations committed to deliver major eco-conservation programmes for Africa.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Southern Africa continues to recover from the disastrous 2015/2016 El Niño-induced drought, which by January 2017 affected about 41 million people across the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Experts in wildlife conservation from Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda on Wednesday in Musanze, a district located in northern Rwanda, have expressed concern over the limited anti-poaching efforts amid rising prices for illegal ivory across the continent, according to an official report obtained Thursday by PANA in Kigali.
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Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) – A court in Liberia’s second port city, Buchanan, in Grand Bassa County, has handed down a one-year prison sentence to a local hunter for killing an endangered leatherback turtle.
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New York, USA (PANA) – Even in wealthier countries, where people have access to toilets and faecal material is contained, treatment and final disposal of wastewater can be far from perfect, leading to polluted rivers and coastlines, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told a World Toilet Day event on Monday.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) - The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) wrapped up on Friday in Bonn, Germany, with delegations expressing a renewed sense of urgency and a need for greater ambition to tackle climate change.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) – Addressing the United Nations Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Wednesday, Secretary-General António Guterres called for more ambition, more leadership and more partnerships to tackle climate change.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) - While USA climate policy has been rolled back under President Donald Trump, India and China have moved ahead, making significant progress in climate action over the past year, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), an environmental NGO said on Wednesday.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) – On the heels of one of the worst – and most costly – Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, a global initiative was launched on Wednesday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23), in Bonn, Germany, with the aim of providing insurance to hundreds of millions of vulnerable people by 2020 and to increase the resilience of developing countries against the impacts of climate change.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Torrential rains that have continued to pound several remote regions in Rwanda since last week have destroyed at least 200 heactares of crops in Karongi, a district in western Rwanda.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) - The European Union and 79 countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, together making up more than half of the signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change, on Tuesday reaffirmed their shared commitment to the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) – The urgent need to raise the funda to meet the funding goals of the Paris Agreement, especially to support action by developing countries, took centre stage Monday at the UN Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) – With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany, entering its final week of negotiations, the Fiji Presidency has announced the Gender Action Plan, highlighting the role of women in climate action.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) – Cities, the transport sector and ocean advocates have announced a number of new initiatives to push for further, faster climate action, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany.
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New York, US (PANA) – As the impact of climate change worsens around the world, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the global community to redouble efforts to help countries respond to climate shocks, especially the most vulnerable.
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Bonn, Germany (PANA) - New commitments and initiatives in energy, water and agriculture sectors were announced on Friday at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action to help implement the Paris Agreement.
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New York, US (PANA) – To tackle the double challenge of energy poverty and climate change – producing clean, affordable energy at a pace that will meet rising demand without environmental detriment – all stakeholders must step up efforts to transform the world’s energy systems for everyone’s benefit, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday.
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New York, USA (PANA) – Marking World Cities Day, a senior United Nations official on Tuesday spotlighted the need to find innovate ways to govern cities, as more than half of the world's population live in urban areas.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Pledges made under the Paris Agreement are only a third of what is required by 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, pointing to the urgent need to boost efforts by both government and non-government actors, the United Nations environment wing said on on Tuesday.
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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian National Institute of Meteorology announced on Tuesday that a telluric quake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, hit the country off the governorate from Nabeul, 75km south-east of Tunis.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surged in 2016 to its highest level in 800,000 years, according to a report released Monday by the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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Manila, Philippines (PANA) – Unless the international community integrates wildlife conservation with sustainable development, it will not be able to protect the remaining animal species on Earth, the head of a United Nations-backed environmental treaty on Monday said at the opening of a wildlife conference in the Philippines.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Contributions from the European Union and its member states to support developing countries in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and coping with the impacts of climate change showed a significant increase in 2016, according to an official statement issued in Brussels onTuesday.
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The withdrawal of the United States from Paris Agreement will have massive implications on US support to the financing of climate actions in the developing world, James Murombedzi, Coordinator of the Addis Ababa-based African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has stated.
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Nineteen ground-breaking initiatives from around the world were announced on Thursday as recipients of the United Nations ‘Momentum for Change’ Climate Solutions Award.
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New York, US (PANA) – A new United Nations report has underscored the importance of a “risk-informed” approach to sustainable development and called for integrating global agreements on disaster risk reduction and climate change into national socio-economic planning.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A dozen radar engineers and operators recruited by Rwanda Meteorological Department are undergoing a one-week training to equip them with knowledge and skills on the interpretation and application of the newly introduced Doppler weather radar products and technology in the country.
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New York, US (PANA) – While pollution has considerably negative impacts on human health and ecosystems, it is controllable and avoidable through political leadership, high-level champions and commitments, as well with local level action, says a new report launched on Thursday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudden onset natural hazards, primarily floods, caused more than 600,000 new displacements in 2016 in the Greater Horn of Africa, according a report launched on Wednesday.
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Kampala, Uganda, (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has offered US$218 million to finance essential water services initiatives in Uganda, the bank’s top official in the East African region said on Tuesday.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Ethiopia is likely to lose half of its coffee growing area due to global warming, according to a groundbreaking new study published Tuesday by Nature Plants, an exclusively online scientific journal.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs on Monday said it is responding to the needs of people affected by high winds and heavy rains that destroyed 119 homes in Huye, a district in Southern Rwanda.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Torrential rains and strong winds have destroyed 119 houses in Huye, a district located in Southern Rwanda, leaving hundred of residents homeless, a senior administrative official in the region confirmed on Monday.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Natural disasters have wreaked havoc in Rwanda this month, killing 5 people, destroying about 1,000 houses and 892 hectares of crops, according to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugees Affairs.
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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government will release 425,082,000 CFA franc to assist the victim of the recent floods that affected nine communes in the country, official sources told PANA on Friday.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Roofs of at least 169 houses, school buildings and churches were damaged during a downpour that hit several parts of Rusizi, a district in the southwestern Rwanda, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), late on Tuesday.
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New York, US (PANA) – Leaders from various levels of government, the private sector and civil society have highlighted the need for climate action as they convened at United Nations Headquarters, where Secretary-General António Guterres warned that current pledges and plans are insufficient to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees.
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New York, (PANA) – Noting the ever-increasing impact of extreme weather events, top United Nations officials, including Secretary-General António Guterres and Miroslav Lajčák, the President of the General Assembly on Monday urged efforts to boost resilience and strengthen damage mitigation measures.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan officials are wading into damage assessments after heavy rain early last week left hundreds homeless in several parts of southeast and Northern Rwanda, an official source confirmed Monday in Kigali.
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